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Title: Visual display of reservoir parameters affecting enhanced oil recovery

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/239331· OSTI ID:239331

This project consists of two parts. In Part 1, well logs, other well data, drilling, and production data for the Pioneer Field in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California were obtained, assembled, and input to a commercial relational database manager. These data are being used in PC-based geologic mapping, evaluation, and visualization software programs to produce 2-D and 3-D representations of the reservoir geometry, facies and subfacies, stratigraphy, porosity, oil saturation, and other measured and model parameters. Petrographic and petrophysical measurements made on samples from Pioneer Field, including core, cuttings and liquids, are being used to calibrate the log suite. In Part 2, these data sets are being used to develop algorithms to correlate log response to geologic and engineering measurements. Rock alteration due to interactions with hot fluids are being quantitatively modeled and used to predict the reservoir response if the rock were subjected to thermally enhanced oil recovery (TEOR).

Research Organization:
Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-93BC14892
OSTI ID:
239331
Report Number(s):
DOE/BC/14892-12; ON: DE96010513; TRN: 96:003473
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 30 Apr 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English